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åöäSvenska språket: crash course.Hej!Välkommen!Hej!Välkommen!"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names"Do you know anyone called Göran? Well... let's hope you don't forget to call him [Yoran]Surname

Berg (mountain) should be pronounced like

[Byari]There are 1558 Swedish words you already know1558 words, terms, or acronyms are identical cognates (in spelling, but not necessary in meaning) in both the Swedish and English languages. Words include country names such as England, Columbia, and Argentina, religion such as Baptism, Hinduism, Presbyterian and other more common terms such as liberal, pentagon, pilsner, Viking, accent, access, adapter, album, charter, dilemma, digital, donation, irritation, salt, socialist, tunnel, avocado tiger, and fusion along with many others. Most of these common words have Germanic, Latin or French roots; such as champagne, déjà vu or résumé.

Bryson, Bill. - "The Mother Tongue"Words in common use:

English ~ 200,000German ~ 184,000French ~ 100,000Swedish ~ 40,000This means, to learn fluent Swedish you only have 38,442 more words to memorize!BUT... is it that easy?Hej då!Adjö!album =

albumaccess =

accessbonus =

bonuscash =

cashbra = brafull = fullfast = fastgift =

giftsemester = semesterargumEntcOntrOllerexperimEntindividuAlpresEntproblEmvitAlJA?... sometimes to sound "Swedish" it is enough to put a word stress in a wrong place...... or do a small trick with last 4 letters ...presentation [presentahun]inspiration

[inspirahun]vision [vihun]mission [mihun]division [divihun]... or learn 3 additional Swedish letters and use 2 of them as words ...Nej?ellerÖ = ISLANDÅ = RIVERTACK!Thank You!... or sometimes it is like nothing to do ...Easy?Well...In English SEMESTER stands for hard work in studies ... well, maybe with some exceptions :-)Whereas in Swedish SEMESTER means a VACATIONIn Sweden you will hear word BRA very often...... because there it means GOODIf you want to say "I am fast" ("Jag är FAST")...... in Sweden it would mean your are FIXED"I am full" ("Jag är FULL") may be taken as...... "I am DRUNK" in SwedenGift is absolutelly not a gift in Sweden ...... it means eigher you are MARRIED or POISONGood news: there are only 2 genders in Swedish,

en and ettBad news: there is no clear rule for gender, so you will just need to learn it for every single wordGood news: 80% of Swedish words are en-words and 20% are ett-words, so if you don't know the correct gender, statistically you have higher chances to end with en-wordsExampleNB! A bit of a boring grammarGood news: Swedish nouns' logic is same as English - word can be eigher definite or indefinite (like a & the)Bad news again: to put a correct indefinite or definite form you will still need to learn the genderHmmm... some more bad news to come: even if you learn the gender for singular, you will need to make an additional effort to learn words in plural.ExampleOk-ok! ...some other time maybea bank = en bankthe bank = bankena penny = ett örethe penny = öretSvenska for beginners: TESTPå en å är en ö, och på ön är en å [Po en o ä en ö, o po ön ä en o]On a river is an island, and on the island is a riverenenenenenenenenenenettettDo you like puzzles? Then Swedish family relationships are for you.mother = morfather = farbrother = brorsister = systermormor

farmor

farfar

morfar

morbror

farbrorfaster

mosterson = sondaughter = dottersysterdotter

brorson brorsdotter

systersonChinese proverbNB! Watch out when pronouncing a Swedish name: it may give you a surprise :-)I had one with a name KERSTIN sounds like [Shyashtin ]So here are some names you may have problems with...Any Lars?[Lash] actually.And by now you are familiar with Swedish letter å, so you can correctly read surname Wastå[Vasto].In surnames Björknert and Carlsmeden you should remove one letter: [Björknet] & [Kalsmeden]LAGOM is a special word in Swedish:not too much, not too little not too big, not too smallnot too long, not too shortnot too early, not too latenot too... basically, just in the middle, just to be rightSju söta sjösjuka sjuksköterskor seglar med segelskepp till ShanghajSeven cute seasick nurses sail on a sailship to ShanghaiTEST: say the following phraseSLUTETThe